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The Pirate Bay has fought many legal battles since its launch in 2003 to keep the website operational for the last 13 years.

However, this time The Pirate Bay is suffering a major blow after the Swedish Court ruled Thursday that it will take away the domain names 'ThePirateBay.se' and 'PirateBay.se' of the world's most popular torrent website and will hand over them to the state.

As its name suggests, The Pirate Bay is one of the most popular file-sharing torrent site predominantly used for downloading pirated or copyrighted media and programs free of charge.

Despite the criminal convictions, the torrent site remains functioning although it has moved to different Web domains several times.

However, this time, The Pirate Bay loses its main .SE domain, the world's 225th most popular website according to the Alexa ranking, according to Swedish newspaper DN.

"In common with the District Court ruling the Court of Appeal finds that there is a basis for confiscation since the domain names assisted crimes under the Copyright Act," a statement on the site of the Svea Court of Appeal reads. "This means that the right to the domain names falls to the state."

Back in 2013, the anti-piracy prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad took a different approach to shutting down the file-sharing website.

Instead of suing the operators of the site or going after The Pirate Bay directly, the prosecutor decided to take two of its more popular domains from it and filed a complaint against Punkt SE (IIS), the company that manages .SE domain names.

The lawsuit filed against Punkt SE claimed that The Pirate Bay was an illegal torrent site and that all tools, including the domain names thepiratebay.se and piratebay.se, used in connection with the illegal site should be suspended.

Last year, the Stockholm District Court ruled in favor of the prosecution, saying that both ThePirateBay.se and PirateBay.se would be taken from the owners of The Pirate Bay.

Punkt SE then appealed and won the case and also awarded the body compensation of US$40,000 for legal costs.

The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg a.k.a 'Anakata' is suspected of being involved in one of Denmark's biggest hack attacks.

Gottfrid was arrested in Cambodia in September 2012 and has been extradited from Cambodia to Sweden last year, charged with hacking the IBM mainframe of Logica, a Swedish IT firm that provided tax services to the Swedish government, and the IBM mainframe of the Swedish Nordea bank.

Now he is suspected in another hacking case, where he and a 20-year-old Danish hacker are suspected to have obtained access to, among other things Danish social security numbers as well as business numbers. Danish suspect was arrested on Wednesday.

In January, police in Sweden told colleagues in Denmark about a Danish IP address they had found during an investigation into hacker attacks against a company handling sensitive information for the Swedish tax authority. Grave cases of hacking are punishable by up to six years in prison under Danish law.

The hackers have also allegedly accessed the Schengen Information System, used by border guards, the police, customs, visa and judicial authorities throughout the Schengen Area and information on wanted persons contained in it.

Justice Minister Morten Boedskov said said that “this is a very serious hacking attack on Danish police registers,” but there was no immediate evidence the data had been used.

The National Police have asked the Police Intelligence Service of the National Security Authority and IT security authority for the police to conduct further investigations into the matter.

The Pirate Bay is one of the world's biggest free file-sharing websites, offering millions of users a forum for downloading music, movies and computer games.

Next week the court is expected to deliver its verdict in Gottfrid’s Swedish trial, and around the same time the authorities will announce their response to the extradition request. Gottfrid, meanwhile, remains in custody as he’s still considered a flight risk. He is kept in solitary confinement upon request from the Danish authorities.

A Russian hacker going by name - "kOS" hack into the Bulgarian torrent tracker "Arenabg" website (http://forum.arenabg.com/) and leak the complete database of their forum and accused of collecting IP of users like PirateBay.

Hacker said, "Why I hack this tracker? Because they store IP information and NO tracker must do, not on any of their service - blog, forum, custom CMS or else. If ARENABG not fix mistake, I dump main tracker information with all IP/username/pass!"

Leaked Database include data of 22675 Users with their name, email, encrypted password and IP address and other forum based information.